Hiromi Goto is an emigrant from Japan who gratefully resides in Lekwungen Territory. Her first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book, Canada and Caribbean Region, […]
Q&A
Q&A with Patrick Friesen
Patrick Friesen has published more than a dozen books of poetry, a book of essays, stage and radio plays, and has co-translated, with Per Brask, five books of Danish poetry, […]
Q&A with Terence Young
Terence Young recently retired from teaching English and creative writing at St. Michaels University School. He is the author of several books: The Island in Winter, shortlisted for the Governor General’s […]
Q&A with SJ Sindu
SJ Sindu is a Tamil diaspora author and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Sindu holds an M.A. in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a […]
Q&A with Amanda Leduc
Amanda Leduc’s essays and stories have appeared in publications across Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. She is the author of the novels The Miracles of Ordinary Men and the […]
Q&A with Jack Wang
Jack Wang received an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. in English/creative writing from Florida State University. In 2014–15, he held the David T. K. Wong Creative […]
Q&A with Yusuf Saadi
Yusuf Saadi’s first collection is Pluviophile (Nightwood Editions April 2020). He previously won The Malahat Review‘s 2016 Far Horizons Award for Poetry and the 2016 Vallum Chapbook Award. His writing has also appeared in journals including Brick, […]
Q&A with jaye simpson
jaye simpson an Oji-Cree Saulteaux indigiqueer writer with roots in Sapotaweyak Cree Nation. they often write about being queer in the Child Welfare system, as well as being queer and Indigenous. their work has […]
Q&A with Jenna Butler
Jenna Butler is the author of the poetry collections Seldom Seen Road, Wells, and Aphelion; a collection of ecological essays, A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the […]
Q&A with Serena Lukas Bhandar
Serena Lukas Bhandar is a Punjabi/Welsh/Irish transfemme witch, youth worker, and facilitator living as a settler on Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ lands. Her Pushcart Prize-nominated writing has appeared in print in Nameless […]
Q&A with David A. Robertson
David A Robertson is the author of numerous books for young readers including When We Were Alone, which won the 2017 Governor General’s Literary Award and was nominated for the TD Canadian […]
Q&A with Kyeren Regehr
Kyeren Regehr, born Sydney, Australia, immigrated to Canada in 2002. She has twice received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and served for several years on the poetry board […]